Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-03-16
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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! made with jackknife has first clock From
/ this rude beg ming has grown up an indust y
| which supplies Il great portion of the world
| with time pieces.
| PARTY of Russians In one Of the new
counties Of Dakota near Missouri river, was
/ csu4h hit out in the hills by "a blizzard, and
| camped Tor three days for the etOrm TO sub
| side. They used tn IT sled to build fires,
| and having no provisions killed one OF the
mule aud fiyed hlgh. AS the animal was
| animal was worth SIS 1T wrenched them ter
! r1by TO feed on 20 costly m at.
| HABRY EDWARDS, young man Of wilkes
barre. Pa, surprised his friends year ago
| by dropping all HIS bad habits and beginn ng
a regular attendance at church and prayer
| meetings. Recently. however. he fell rrt m
| grace and returned to his old way of living
| Last week he attended meeting OF the
| Salvation Army and was soothing at the SER
vices when he became totally blind. He was
! taken home and physicians were summoned,
bu they were powerless TO render and.
ACCORDING TO Peter Hue the Chinese were
accustomed to use the cat as clock. ''They
pointed out to u.s." says the missionary,
that the pupil OF the eve contracted general
| ly as noon drew near; that at noon il was like
hair or an extremely thin liue, traced per
! pehdcularly on the eve; after midday Inc
| pupil began again To dlate. When we had
aitentively examined the oats in the place
we concluded that IL was past noon The
es of all presented an extremely similar APP
pearance.
BILL 10 promote the cultivation of oysters
and other shell fish in North Carolina waters
has passed both branches of the Legislature
OF that State and become q law. The bill
allows the taking up of vacant bot ON in the
| middle of the wider sounds. W ere publ C beds
DO not exist, as vacant lands are taken up.
Inc measure Is intended to greatly enhance
the oy ter interest IN the EN- ployment OF lab,r
and capital. This action is regarded rs a
progressive step, ana one of much material
Importance TO the whole State.
A FUNNY bet was made in Winnipeg.
Canada, the other day. At one of the hotels
Conservative, who had won great deal Of
money on the election. exuItingy showed his
Doodle 80 often that 1t aroused the ire of one
OF the Liberals, who exclaimed IN go you
a son even that you'll kick yourself sore be-
lore SIX mont hs for voting for Scarth, and"
continued he, ''you 'dasSent take it," The
Scarth man pulled out $50 and laid it on the
table. This money was covered in short
oroer and stakeholder was nominated,
A NoRwALK Conn, notary recently had &C.
cas- on to use Bible in administering an
oath to q client, but he did not have copy of
the SCRIPTURES in his Office, ana calls a. the
| offices of several of his neighbors showed
them to be equally de-tI ut. Then he step
ped into the Norwalk Library to procure the
desired book, but peither he nor the librarian
could lind one, The notary's eye finally
lighted upon a copy OF the Koran, and tn G
notary. concluding that this w uld answer,
took away the book and swOre his client upon
1t.
SOME ONE asserted that the common soldiers
could not have pufed smoke into the face Of
Charles l. because tobacco was at that time
loo dear. but in "A Perfect Description of
virginia" published In 1919, the author sals
that the inferior inhabitants and ordinary
sort of men cultivated tobacco. and in to-
bacco they can make E21 man, at Sd
pound per annum. And this they find and
know. and the present gain is that that puts
out all enceavors from the attempting of
others more staple and solid and rich com
modlties out of the heads and hands of the
common people,"
REPORT has been drawn up at the German
Ministry for War on the marching capabili
tie of The different European armies. 1t ap-
pears that the length of each step of Rus
sian soldier, according TO regulations, lie II
centimetres: the Germ an, so; the French
Austrian, Italian, elgian, Swedish Swiss
rs, an average OF about 49, inches The
tall n soldier does l20 steps in a minute.
the French from liz to 1I6; the German. lis;
the Austrian. lis, and the Belgian, ITO. An
Italian regiment marches at the rate Of 80
metres in the minute; German regiment,
50; an English, So, and French, Sc.
ONE of the members of the First City Troop,
a prominent gentleman rider OF Philadelphia
SAID in reference to the American Exhibition
in London: 1.-The City Troop was invited to
be present at the opening as guard OF honor
to somebody or other, with all their expense
paid. OF course we could not accept the in
vitation. 1t is not likely that we would be
allowed TO land in England with swords and
chrbnes as regular body. The rebuff the
Atlanta Infantry received is sufficient eyi-
dence of how strict the English law is /
think Buffalo Bill Will make he success of the
eXh mtion EnIlishmen think that j. thor
ouShly American, as it is in one sense, and
they like TO have their ideals realized. Be-
sides the English people underst and good
riding and shooting when they see ii, and
they VIII certainly see 1t in that show | con-
slider Cosy one OF the best riders ever saw
He mas already sent over $50 buckipg ponies
to show them what 'bucking' rea ly is.'
MEXICAN PONY which ran at will about
the winter quarters OfJohn Robinson's circus
in Cincinnati incurred the anger of an ele-
plant he other day, and the big beast reiZei
the little fel ow and threw him against the
cage OF young African leopard The leop-
ar was apparently waiting for Just such
game. for II bounded against the b rs of its
cage and sunk its claws INTO the unfortunate
pouy's SIDE. The force of the leap started
Two bars of the cage. and in a itfy The leonard
had squeezed its 1.-THE body tetween them
and was free. He at once pitched into the
elephant. ana IN les time than It takes 10 lell
1t was so padiy used that lie etired TO a cor
ner OF the barn TO nurse his wounds. As he
lay there his tail stuck through under he
boards, and was seen by attaches of The cir
Gus. who grabbed il from the outside If the
barn aud hung on, while the leopa d screamed
and spit and hlssed III his efforts to Ct Tree
/ de was thus held until boX was pushed up.
! into which he was forced
NOT long ago an engine with a caboose at
tached, with Engineer w. G.. stomp and
/ Fireman Frank Currant in the cab, was
| backing around a curve on the Cincinnati.
! Hamilton and Dayton road. Just north of
| Da' ton. o.. when they discovered an extra
| freight bearing down on them. The en-
gineer reversed his lever and put on full
head OF steam, but IL was too late, and he
/ ana he lire an, tn save their lives, jumped
just as he engine on the freight tram went
crashing into The cabOOse. The abandon, d
locomotive a. the same time began moving
! forward, and went rushing through the vi,y
1T the rate of sixty miles au hour She
crossed about TWEEN y-nye busy streets. ami
ran through three freight yards and tn,
! Union depot. Near the depot she Jumped
the track. breaking The heavy rails a. if
they were pipe stems. She ran along on tn e
ties tor distance of 500 feet, then took the
rails OF the Cincinnati. Cleveland. Culumbu.
ami indianapolis road. and ran through the
country for ten miles. when she again left
the track and soon exhausted herself Con-
siderable damage was done tile property of
the railroad, but the most wonderful part o.
the affair was that no one was injured except
the engineer and fireman, who abandoned
their locomotive, though there were seyeril
narrow escapes A street car crowded with
people escaped the runaway by not more Than
All Inch, the rear atform showing that il was
scratched by the engine.
EDMOND ABOUT told in his speech nj the
nj i'm Of A In Du, 4,